Such, however, were the impressions, made by these unnamed manufacturers and disseminators of scruples, who, if Paul is to be believed, came from James the brother of our Lord--that, by the whole Church, as it is called, of Antioch, a determination was taken--to send to Jerusalem, to the Apostles and the Elders that were associated with them, a numerous mission, headed by Paul and Barnabas, who are the only two persons named. Accordingly, out they set, "after having been brought on their way," says the author of the Acts, 15:3, "by the _Church_," which is as much as to say, by the whole fraternity of Christians there established. SECTION 2. THE DELEGATES HOW RECEIVED.--COUNCIL OF APOSTLES AND ELDERS. Against the pretensions of a man thus supported, vain, on the part of the original and real Apostles, would have been any attempt, to resist the pretensions of this their self-constituted rival: they, Barnabas and Paul, were received, says the author of the Acts, of the Church and of the Apostles and Elders.[31] Arrived at Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas told their own story--related their adventures and experiences--declared, to use the language of the Acts 15:4, all things that God had done unto them. * * * * * Notwithstanding the utmost exertion of Paul's ever-ready eloquence,--some, it is stated, there were, who, believers as, in a certain sort, they were in the religion of Jesus,--were not to be persuaded, to give up so much as a single tittle of the Mosaic law: these were, as it was natural they should be, of the sect of Pharisees. "There rose up," says the Acts 15:5, "certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying that it was needful to circumcise them (the Gentiles), and to command them to keep the law of Moses." * * * * * Of these private discussions, the result was--the convocation of an assembly of the managing body, in which, associated with the Apostles, we find others--under the name of _Elders_.